NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 330

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI and NVIDIA Quadro FX 330 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI

NVIDIA Quadro FX 330

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI

2880x more texture fill rate: 2x 880 MTexel / s billion / sec vs 1 GTexel / s
Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 21 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 64 MB vs 64 MB

Texture fill rate	2x 880 MTexel / s billion / sec vs 1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt vs 21 Watt
Maximum memory size	2x 64 MB vs 64 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 330

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 220 MHz
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 332 MHz

Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 220 MHz
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 332 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI	NVIDIA Quadro FX 330
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Rankine
Code name	NV17 A3	NV37
Launch date	16 July 2004	28 June 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	220 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2x 880 MTexel / s billion / sec	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt	21 Watt
Transistor count	29 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x LFH60	1x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		168 mm
API support
DirectX	8.0	9.0a
OpenGL	1.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 5.31 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	332 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR2